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If we develop this kind of characteristic, then it is our material bondage. So we are the cause of material bondage and freedom from material world. We are, ourself, the cause.
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[[Vanisource:750130 - Lecture BG 16.04 - Honolulu|750130 - Lecture BG 16.04 - Honolulu]]
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By the characteristics we can understand who is a godly man and who is a demonic man. They are stated. And the next verse is there, daivī sampad vimokṣāya: if one has this divine characteristic, then he is eligible for going to the spiritual world. Vimokṣāya. Daivī sampad vimokṣāya nibandhāya āsurī matā ([[Vanisource:BG 16.5 (1972)|BG 16.5]]). But these demonic characteristic, dambho darpaḥ abhimānaś ca pāruṣyam ajñānaṁ sampad āsurī, if we develop this kind of characteristic, then it is our material bondage. So we are the cause of material bondage and freedom from material world. We are, ourself, the cause. There is no other cause. Simply we have to develop either this demonic characteristic or the divine characteristic.

So human life is meant for developing divine characteristic, not this demonic char . . . demonic characteristic is already there. Just like dambhaḥ. A dog has also pride: "I am this dog, hrr." (laughter) "I am fox terrier. I am this. I am that." So dambhaḥ is there, even in the dog, even in the lower animal, even in the cat. But the divine characteristic, "Oh, I am so low," tṛṇād api sunīcena, "I am lower than the grass. I am lower than the grass" . . . this is Caitanya Mahāprabhu's teaching. What is this dambhaḥ? Why I should be pride? What is this pride? So that is ignorance, due to ignorance. When one man is unnecessarily proud, that means it is due to ignorance.
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